"This is not your father's Apollo, " says John Logsdon of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University.

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President Kennedy's ambitious goal of landing on the moon was achieved in eight years, by a NASA that was free to soar on a budget that rose to 4.4% of the annual federal budget in 1966, according to noted space historian John Logsdon.

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